Synonyms:
Yankee
Meaning: used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
Yankee, Yank, Northerner
Meaning: an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)
Usage examples
It is one of the marks of a true Yankee, I suspect, to like such a perch.
"A Yankee destroyer--in all probability the one we dodged yesterday afternoon."
Pratt managed the helm (the governor could not work the Yankee notion) and the kitchen.
He was one of the very few persons whom I met at the South who did not recognize me at sight as a Yankee.
That a Yankee should accept his hospitality, and then load him with curses and call him all manner of names!
Colonel Talbot is at the front, and you'll probably find him closer than any other officer to the Yankee army.
And even if I am an old hound I could run with the best of them if that infernal Yankee bullet had not taken me in the leg!"
Leaving home, he found, in a venture at "Yankee notion-pedling," that glibness meant three hundred per cent, in disposing of flimsy wares.
There are gaps in the Yankee lines, but the men have closed up, and they come on at the double quick with their cannon still firing over their heads!"
At sunset, the garrison of Fort Slatter was still unconquered, and the South-Enders, in a solid phalanx, marched off whistling "Yankee Doodle," while we cheered and jeered them until they were out of hearing.